SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 43 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +43
Contract jobs citing SAP 92 79 92
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.95% 4.71% 4.25%
As % of the Vendors category 9.65% 10.33% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 37 72
10th Percentile £401 £351 £430
25th Percentile £525 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £723
90th Percentile £855 £831 £849
Central London median daily rate £590 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +9.77% -10.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.73% - -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 953 765 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.92% 45.62% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 466 689
10th Percentile £356 £308 £313
25th Percentile £431 £431 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -0.45% -3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £757 £790
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 6
10th Percentile - £23.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.39 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +75.44% -5.95%
75th Percentile £23.43 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.77 £117.50 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £30.04 £19.75
% change year-on-year -35.08% +52.08% -5.95%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the City of London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 - -
SAP
Central London

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.09%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.09%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (32.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.52%) SAP ERP
3 5 (5.43%) SAP HCM
4 4 (4.35%) SAP EWM
5 3 (3.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (3.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (3.26%) SAP MM
6 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (2.17%) iTrent
6 2 (2.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (2.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (2.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (2.17%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (2.17%) SAP PM
6 2 (2.17%) SAP PP
6 2 (2.17%) SAP QM
7 1 (1.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (1.09%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.96%) SuccessFactors
2 7 (7.61%) Azure
3 5 (5.43%) AWS
3 5 (5.43%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.26%) OCI
5 3 (3.26%) Serverless
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.17%) Boomi
6 2 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.17%) GitHub
6 2 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.17%) Textract
7 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.26%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (3.26%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.26%) Power BI
3 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.17%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.17%) Metadata
3 2 (2.17%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.09%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.09%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) Postman
2 1 (1.09%) Selenium
2 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.09%) TestRail
2 1 (1.09%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (30.43%) Finance
2 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.61%) Billing
5 5 (5.43%) Banking
5 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.35%) Law
7 3 (3.26%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Legal
7 3 (3.26%) Local Government
8 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.17%) Retail
8 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (20.65%) Architect
2 15 (16.30%) Consultant
3 14 (15.22%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (11.96%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (9.78%) Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Lead
6 8 (8.70%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.52%) SAP Manager
8 5 (5.43%) Functional Consultant
8 5 (5.43%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) SAP Architect
9 4 (4.35%) SAP Project Manager
10 3 (3.26%) Business Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) ERP Consultant
10 3 (3.26%) Oracle Consultant
10 3 (3.26%) Report Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Senior
10 3 (3.26%) Transformation Analyst
11 2 (2.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (10.87%) Middleware
3 5 (5.43%) XML
4 4 (4.35%) JSON
5 3 (3.26%) REST
6 2 (2.17%) boto
6 2 (2.17%) EDI
6 2 (2.17%) IDoc
6 2 (2.17%) NumPy
6 2 (2.17%) OAuth
6 2 (2.17%) Pandas
6 2 (2.17%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (1.09%) JDBC
7 1 (1.09%) JWT
7 1 (1.09%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.09%) Playwright
7 1 (1.09%) PySpark
7 1 (1.09%) RAML
7 1 (1.09%) Swagger
7 1 (1.09%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.43%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.35%) FMCG
3 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.17%) IoT
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.09%) Life Science
6 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.87%) ERP
2 30 (32.61%) Migration
3 19 (20.65%) Data Migration
4 15 (16.30%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (9.78%) ETL
6 9 (9.78%) Roadmaps
6 9 (9.78%) Validation
7 8 (8.70%) Data Modelling
7 8 (8.70%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (7.61%) Data Governance
8 7 (7.61%) Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (7.61%) Project Management
8 7 (7.61%) Risk Management
8 7 (7.61%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (6.52%) Agile
9 6 (6.52%) Event-Driven
9 6 (6.52%) Project Delivery
9 6 (6.52%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.87%) SQL
2 4 (4.35%) Python
3 3 (3.26%) ABAP
4 2 (2.17%) C#
4 2 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.09%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (5.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.26%) PMP
2 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.17%) Degree
3 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.09%) CIPD
4 1 (1.09%) CISM
4 1 (1.09%) CISSP
4 1 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.52%) GDPR
2 6 (6.52%) QA
3 4 (4.35%) GAAP
3 4 (4.35%) PMO
4 2 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.09%) Basel III
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.09%) GRC
5 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.09%) IFRS
5 1 (1.09%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.09%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (26.09%) Oracle
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.70%) Workday
4 6 (6.52%) Ariba
5 3 (3.26%) Informatica
5 3 (3.26%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.09%) Concur
7 1 (1.09%) Databricks
7 1 (1.09%) ESRI
7 1 (1.09%) Kronos
7 1 (1.09%) OpenText
7 1 (1.09%) Planon
7 1 (1.09%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.09%) Talend